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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Giveaway...

To celebrate my return to the land of highspeed internet and the shiney new computer I am giving away to one lucky winner this wonderful collection of BasicGrey papers from their Recess line (4 sheets & 1 monogram sheet), a set of BasicGrey chip stickers from their Boxer line and one Prismatics paper pack in Razzleberry (contains 12 sheets of cardstock in 3 shades).

Just leave a comment about what your scrapbooking organizational challenge is and I'll draw one winner at random on the Tuesday April 7th. For this giveaway only those in the USA and Canada are eligible. I promise I will hold one shortly for only those overseas...

Stay tuned later today for the second installment of GOBI by the numbers!

19 comments:

Organization is my challenge, period! One of my challenges is organizing my photos on the computer. My husband also takes tons of digital photos, and he does not want to use Photoshop Elements to download his pictures. So, I have have to hunt the pictures and organize them. My second challenge is physical spaces for organizing: how do you organize paper? What if you get kits? Do you keep the kits together, or separate the materials into the various storage spaces? Organization is NOT my thing!

Organising a room of scrapping stuff into a coat closet has been my chalenge. After moving to a differant state and into a much much smaller house I have had to try to squeez every scrap/craft item I own into the small closet. So far plastic carts with drawers seem to be the solution. They will be mobile and reusable when we make the next move soon. This works but it is not my dream solution. I would love to see all my stuff instead having to go thrue every drawer.

I will be moving my scrap room from a main floor bedroom to a basement bedroom. I have all my paper stored in pizza boxes, but need a good way to store rubber stamps and ink pads. I have organized my stickers into "themes" and alphabetized them in a project folder - don't have many, but sure seems like a lot! But at least they are all in one place now. next on the list will be punches - finding a cardboard box, lighting for the downstairs bedroom and moving all the stuff!!!

I think my greatest organizational challenge right now is finished cards and card making supplies. I am struggling with how to make them fit in my cabinetry, and trying to figure out how to organize the finished cards so I can grab and write and mail effectively, without having to look through a ton of them to get to what I need... Finished cards are what clutters my desk as I type this... and I have NO clue what to do with them all... I really don't need another card until 2015, but I keep joining swaps, because I"m addicted! :)

My greatest organizational challenge is keeping it all cleaned up. After taking GOBI I am determined to make sure it is clean all the time. However, I have to make a very concentrated effort because I tend to be a very unorganized. I am going to need support to keep it up so I hope to create a list of blogs from the women that took the class.

I will be moving my scrap room into the family room to allow my girls to each have their own room. I am excited about it because I can still watch movies etc with my family while I scrap however, I am NOT excited about the move. I have too much stuff that I don't know where to put it!

Organization? what is organization?? All my stuff is shoved in pretty cabinets, but I can't find a darn thing. I struggle the most with just finding places to put things. I need some boxes or baskets or something to keep like objects together.

Here was my reply: I like to think I'm organized, but there is always work to do. My greatest challenge to organize is stickers and embellies. I have most of my stickers in a binder with sticker pages but they aren't in any order. I could spend alot of time looking for the one I want. I haven't bought any in ages and most are from years ago. I just recently organized my paper scraps by color, so this was a great feat for me to accomplish.

Oh my where do I start...I do have a craft room but everything is everywhere. No rhyme or reason to how my patterned papers are "organized". Because of this I end up going through all my patterned papers every time I want to make a LO - the result is paper all over the floor - no where to walk!!!

Had a bit of a set back in GOBI. DH dislocated his shoulder and could not finish the shelving for me. It will take a few more weeks before I can get back into my room. In the meanwhile I have half of my stash in my old room and the other half in the new room. If plan on losing a lot of weight going up and down the stairs to do any scrapping. So, I am not sure if all will go smootly with my new organization method. Only time will tell.

My greatest organizational challenge is to stop buying and bringing more things into my space. I am hoping because my space looks so great right now that I won't want to bring more in. Only time will tell.

My biggest organizational challenge is that my "crafting space" is in my family room. I have a pretty good amount of space and have a great system going for me now but no way to really expand and since it's part of the living room everything really has to "match" the cherry wood that we use. With that in mind the paper has been the biggest challenge and I ended up using the sterlite 12x12 sliding drawers as well as some of the black 12x12 stacking trays along with some cherry wood closet maid stuff that exactly matched my desk, but alas, unless I move some of my stackables to the wall I am out of room to further sort my paper.

My biggest organizational challenge is I don't really have a space of my own. I have set up shop in my unfinished basement, and I need to pack it up now, to be able to finish the basement. I recently bought some CIS cubes, but I am totally overwhelmed at the idea of putting things in them! LOL!